The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced expanded coverage plans for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 in Dubai. ICC TV is set to produce live coverage of 28 matches which will be broadcast by the Cricket body’s global broadcast partners, making this edition the most widely available to watch ICC Men’s T20 [...]
BBC Studios has announced that it has licensed over 800 hours of content to clients across Africa in the past six months. The first agreement will be between the studios and Seychelles Broadcasting Company (SBC) and also securing a package deal with a free-to-air broadcaster in Kenya and extending access to BBC Studios content through [...]
Zain has just announced the launch of its unique subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, ‘PlayVOD’, in partnership with Digital Virgo which is a France-based specialist in telecom payments, monetization and digital marketing. With this new service Zain Kuwait’s offers 2.8 million customers access to a wide range of popular movies and TV series, mixing [...]
The entertainment streaming service, Viu, has recently announced its partnership with eMedia Investments and Openview’s News and Sport Channel. The partnership will aim to provide viewers with live access to selected live Premier League games as well as current affairs. News and Sport is Openview’s most recent news and sport channel. The channel strives to [...]
The South African Broadcasting Association (SABC) and the South African Football Association (SAFA) have finally reached a four- year deal that will see Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana matches broadcast on terrestrial television. The agreement will start with live coverage on SABC 1 of Bafana’s Nelson Mandela Challenge clash with Mali. The deal includes all [...]
Thirteen years after the approbation of Digital Switch Over (DSO) by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Federal Government has not yet validated the N45 billion to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which has frustrated its take-off in the country. During an inspection of facilities at Gospell Digital Technology (GDT) factory at Calabar Free Zone [...]
The Director of Canal + Sport channels, Pierre Chaudesaygues has officialized the launch of the first sports series made in Gabon called “Basket Academy”, which will be aired exclusively on the Canal + sports channels on 11 October. Basket Academy is a reality show by Canal + with 6 episodes. 55 people have been mobilized during [...]
Airtel Africa has officialized its collaboration with Mastercard, offering mobile phone users across 14 African countries access to Mastercard’s global network. The Mastercard virtual card will enable Airtel Money customers, even without a bank account, to make payments to local and global online merchants that accept Mastercard cards. Airtel Money customers will be able to [...]
Tooli will offer Arabsat’s free-to-air channels and is in talks with pay-TV content owners and platforms to offer their content as well onto the platform with the objective of rolling out a paid service in the future. According to BroadcastPro ME, Arabsat has collaborated with Saudi Capabilities Company to use its platform Tooli to launch [...]
Ethiosat is a collaboration of the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB), the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), satellite operator SES. Ethiosat is available on SES’s NSS-12 satellite at 57 degrees East and offers over 30 channels for Ethiopian audiences only, with 12 of those channels already in High Definition (HD) quality. To access Ethiosat direct-to-home (DTH), [...]
